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Privacy Browser PC 0.9
Privacy Browser PC 0.9 was released on 25 April 2026. This release contains a number of small changes which polish Privacy Browser and make it more enjoyable to use. JavaScript can now copy text to the keyboard with user interaction (it cannot read text from the clipboard). For example, this now allows a user to…
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2025 Financial Report
REVENUE Total Revenue: $42,864.07 Crypto currency is a combination of Bitcoin and Monero donations. Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Stripe revenue comes from Liberapay donations. PayPal comes from Liberapay, sales on Samsung’s Galaxy App Store, and from direct donations. Amazon revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on the Amazon AppStore. Patreon revenue comes from Patreon donations. The majority…
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2025 Security and Privacy Canary
BACKDOORS During 2025, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. During 2025, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. PRIVACY During 2025, Stoutner received 0 secret requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.8
Privacy Browser PC 0.8 was released on 30 January 2025. From the beginning, there have been problems when changing the user agent. Doing so would cause the current page to reload, interrupting the loading of the new URL. I have finally implemented a solution to this that works around Qt WebEngine’s buggy behavior. Basically, the…
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2024 Financial Report
REVENUE Total Revenue: $1,771.73 Google Play revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on Google Play. Stripe revenue comes from Liberapay donations. Crypto currency is a combination of Bitcoin and Monero donations. Patreon revenue comes from Patreon donations. Amazon revenue comes from selling the standard flavor on the Amazon AppStore. I have a small amount of PayPal donations, which I forgot…
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2024 Security and Privacy Canary
BACKDOORS During 2024, Stoutner received 0 requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to insert backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. During 2024, Stoutner inserted 0 backdoors into Privacy Browser Android, Privacy Browser PC, or Privacy Cell. PRIVACY During 2024, Stoutner received 0 secret requests from governments, organizations, or individuals to…
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Privacy Browser PC on Debian Stable Backports
Privacy Browser PC 0.7 was recently released, with packages being uploaded to Debian unstable and testing. Debian testing is also known as trixie, and will be the next Debian stable release, expected to land in the first half of 2025. Up until this point I have been backporting Privacy Browser PC releases to bookworm-backports (bookworm…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.7
Privacy Browser PC 0.7 was released on 11 December 2024. The major feature of this release is that Privacy Browser PC has been rebased on KDE 6 and Qt 6. Qt 5 was in EOL (End of Life) maintenance mode, meaning that from a feature perspective Qt WebEngine was based on Chromium 87.0.4280.144. The Qt…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.6.2
Privacy Browser 0.6.2 was released on 30 September 2024. The impetus for this release was an attempt to fix a bug in the packages in the official Ubuntu repository, which appear to be caused by a mismatch in PIE (position-independent executable) and PIC (position-independent code) compiler flags. This problem didn’t affect packages in the official…
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Privacy Browser PC 0.6.1
Privacy Browser PC 0.6.1 was released on 21 August 2024 to fix a couple of bugs with the new features in 0.6. On devices with small screens (or large fonts) the domain settings dialog now has so many entries it could be pushed off the bottom of the screen. The fix was to encase the…